Kivertsi

Kivertsi (Ukrainian: Ківерці, Russian: Киверцы, Polish: Kiwerce) is a town in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kivertsi Raion. Population: 17,200 (2014). Area in total - 848,200 ha.

Kivertsi is located in Ukraine and time zone Europe/Kiev, 12 km northeast from the city of Lutsk, the regional center.

The town has 3 artificial reservoirs (lake Молодіжне (Molodizhne) area of 1.25 hectares, and two little lakes with an area of 1 ha each), the Prudnik River is passing through. On all sides the town is surrounded by forests. Within the city Kivertsi there is 171.7 hectares of forested land.

The Emblem

The Emblem of Kivertsi - a square divided horizontally into two parts. On the upper side of the white part there's a running red squirrel, the lower side is divided into three vertical stripes of equal width - green, yellow and green.

Origin of the name

The name ”Kivertsi” historians associate with the name of an ancient tribe called ”Tivertsi” that lived on the banks of the Dniester River at the mouth of the Danube. At the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century under the pressure of neighbour nomadic tribes Tivertsi moved north. Divided into smaller groups the tribe has spread and settled in Volyn. Over time, the name mutated into ”Kivertsi” and was assigned to the place of settlement of the tribe.